I've always found that when you are solving a concrete problem, like you were, it's vastly easier than the case of a general-purpose database because you can ma

I've always found that when you are solving a concrete problem, like you were, it's vastly easier than the case of a general-purpose database because you can make all the tradeoffs that benefit your exact use case. but it sounds like that's not what you experienced. was it just how heterogeneous the clients' needs were? I guess what I'm saying is, if you are capable of handling 1TB/minute, seems like you're plenty able to and would want to be designing the system yourself - but interested what I'm missing about this.